Isa
The girl's name Isa has been in the national records since 1880, with 6,575 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,710th. About 5,600 Isas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Isa boys named Isa
Girls and boys called Isa
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Isa crossed from girls to boys in 1995, and has stayed there for 31 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 70% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 57 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,575
- Estimated living today
- 5,600
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 1,710th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,710th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 3,433 / 3,142
How old the living Isas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,575 babies given the name since 1880, about 5,600 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 150 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Isabel, Isabella and Isabelle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Isas
- Isa Mustafa (born 1951)Kosovo Albanian politician
- Isa II of Bahrain (1933–1999)Emir of Bahrain
- Isa Miranda (1905–1982)Italian actress
- İsa Çelebi (1378–1403)Ottoman prince (1380-1407), son of Bayezid I
- Isa Gambar (born 1957)Azerbaijani politician
- Isa Boletini (1864–1916)Kosovo Albanian guerilla leader
- Al-Mu'azzam Isa (1176–1227)Ayyubid Sultan of Damascus 1218–1227
- Isa Habibbayli (born 1949)Ph.D. in philology, professor
People named Isa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Isa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Isa is most concentrated in California (2.5×), New York (2.3×), Texas (2.2×), New Jersey (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Isa peaked:
Isa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Isa | 3,150 | 238th |
| Belgium girls | Isa | 706 | 203rd |
| France boys | Isa | 500 | 1,289th |
| Belgium boys | Isa | 397 | 305th |
| Norway boys | Isa | 286 | 170th |
| Switzerland boys | Isa | 274 | 266th |
| Norway girls | Isa | 266 | 244th |
| France girls | Isa | 260 | 2,729th |
| Sweden girls | Isa | 108 | 96th |
| England and Wales girls | Isa | 100 | 3,160th |
| Switzerland girls | Isa | 54 | 945th |
| Scotland boys | Isa | 33 | 482nd |
| Ireland boys | Isa | 15 | 629th |
| Ireland girls | Isa | 9 | 894th |
| Poland boys | Isa | 9 birth registrations | 595th |
| Poland girls | Isa | 2 birth registrations | 724th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Isa: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Isa | 252 | 0.020% | 202nd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Isa | 34 | 0.003% | 743rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Isa | 20 | 0.005% | 496th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Isa | 14 | 0.003% | 493rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Isa | 6 | 0.009% | 152nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Isa | 2 | 0.003% | 184th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Isa is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.04% of children were given it – 44 of them.
Isa: rank by region
In 2025, Isa was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Isa | 193 | 29 |
| Flanders | Isa | 205 | 29 |
In 2023, Isa was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Isa | 325 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Isa appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (64th), Province of Antwerp (99th), Province of Limburg (117th), Province of West Flanders (160th), Province of East Flanders (188th) and Province of Antwerp (243rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Isa by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 104 | 128th |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 11 | 425th |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 6 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Isa among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Isa | 10,764 | 12,079 |
| Finland girls | Isa | 711 | 987 |
| the Netherlands boys | Isa | 303 | 457 |
| Finland boys | Isa | 32 | 45 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Isa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.